Seeing that there are still some clueless conservatives who believe the Republican Party was always synonymous with conservatism and the South as it is today, how was Lincoln and his party conservative?
2007-03-26 11:23:22 · 9 answers · asked by trovalta_stinks_2 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Reasons why he was a left-winger, not a conservative:
- He expanded the power of the federal government over the states.
- He believed in using the federal government to enforce social equality.
- He said labor is superior to capital. Theodore Roosevelt would later quote him and explained how he would be called a communist agitator now that he said it.
- He was buddy buddy with Karl Marx. Marx wrote him a letter congratulating him on his re-election and explained that the war would ascend the working class. http://www.marxists.org/history/international/iwma/documents/1864/lincoln-letter.htm
- Socialists in their websites think of him as one of their own.
- Neo-confederates conservatives label Lincoln the "American Lenin"
- Neo-confederate conservatives say, Lincoln's Radical Republican Party was infested with socialists and outright communists.
- He was labeled an infidel by his critics. He never denied it.
- His Party was labeled "Radical" by southern conservatives.
2007-03-26 11:24:08 · update #1
Neocons are googling as we speak...
They have no idea how he was a conservatives. They just assumed he was because he was a Republican. Don't worry, give them a few minutes.
2007-03-26 11:32:43 · update #2
Thank you so much for clearing that up for the conservatives, it's laughable how many don't quite understand their history and the various party shifts through out time (not all, but most). It always cracks me up to see them conjure up Lincoln as their proud Republican forefather, how can they even possibly draw parallels from their party today?
2007-03-26 11:34:05 · answer #1 · answered by ♥austingirl♥ 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
"That Stinkin Lincoln" Thomas DiLorenzo
You forgot to mention he was no abolitionist.
The first income tax ever.
Super High tariffs.
Imprisoning protestors.
Threatening Federal Court Judges with imprisonment.
Check out the book:
The Real Lincoln
It's amazing to think of how many people died on American soil!
A civil war! Here!
Hundreds of thousands!
Over what?
Economics? Industrial vs. Agricultural.
To deny the right to secede?
We know it wasnt because of slavery.
If thats what the people thought then, we know now they were horribly mislead to believe such a thing.
To Ann Rocks below. You are right. Modern Liberalism is not Classical Liberalism. Classical triumphs. Thats why Ron Paul was mentioned in newsweek as "An Cheerful Anachronism"
My guess is that there is more support for him than most people realize.
2007-03-26 11:44:53 · answer #2 · answered by JL 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You look to have an rather slender view of the republican occasion in the U. S.. I stay in Orange County, CA, an rather conservative, republican county that for the time of all possibility shares very few issues in basic with the deep south. There are racists on the two aspects of the spectrum. you elect to easily talk approximately white southern republican racists on an identical time as ignoring the black, city democratic racists that are in basic terms as a lot available. the place is your condemnation of them? Oh i assume it particularly is nice because of the fact they belong on your political occasion. Very very few people condone racism. end playing the race card. i'm a conservative republican that believes in states rights, yet I dont get why every physique might choose to fly the accomplice flag. What conservative republicans desire is for race to now not be a attention. The dems push for classes and use the race card that set races against one yet another on objective. If any occasion flourishes on the race card and keeping racism alive, it rather is the democratic occasion. i think of an excellent variety of folk, black, white or purple, vote in democrats because of the fact they are seeking handouts. I have no undertaking asserting that.
2016-10-20 00:02:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lincoln was in no way a conservative. At that time, the two parties held the opposite views that they hold today. So, in modern terms, Lincoln was in essence a democrat, the party of the people
2007-03-26 11:27:28 · answer #4 · answered by juddthestud1987 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
You are only demonstrating your own ignorance and your belief in your Liberal stereotypes about Conservatives. Nothing more.
He was Conservative in that he believed in a Strong Union and a strong military. He believed in Freedom of religion, and was himself a god-fearing man.
There is no resemblance between any of our fore-fathers and modern liberalism.
2007-03-26 11:45:35 · answer #5 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I love how they call their party -the party of lincoln and reagan, if you have to skip back 200 years to find a good president, you are doomed...
2007-03-26 11:30:01 · answer #6 · answered by Mark P. 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Republicans were the good guys all the way through the early 1920s, until Harding's corruption unwove it all.
2007-03-26 11:29:29 · answer #7 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
They were progressives. It was the Democratic Party that was conservative. It seems they've forgotten about their roots.
2007-03-26 11:27:21 · answer #8 · answered by cynical 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Oops...sorry...I was here to answer a question...
...I didn't mean to interrupt your sermon...
...my mistake...
2007-03-26 11:37:35 · answer #9 · answered by u_bin_called 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋